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Issues and Challenges in Cataloguing Arabic Books in Malaysia Academic Libraries
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Ismail, Mohd Ikhwan; Roni, Nurul Azurah Md. – Education for Information, 2011
Education in Library and Information Science is a requirement to become a librarian. There are a lot of syllabi and subjects to concentrate on such as cataloguing and classification, information retrieval, knowledge management, and reference. The library as a centre of information has been developing year by year with various types of collections…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Semitic Languages, Scripts, Information Science Education
Application of Loglinear Models to Informetric Phenomena.
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Bookstein, Abraham; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1992
Describes the use of loglinear statistical models in the field of informetrics, especially for the analysis of information systems. A detailed example is given of developing a model based on loglinear analysis to determine book acquisition patterns in libraries, including mathematical considerations and algorithms. (19 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Information Retrieval, Information Science, Information Systems
Exact Probabilistic and Mathematical Proofs of the Relation between the Mean Number of Items per Source in the Bibliography and the Generalized 80/20-Rule.
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Egghe, L. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1993
Examines the 80/20 rule that relates to productive sources in a bibliography. Highlights include applications in library acquisition policies, library circulation and weeding policies, science policy studies, information science, and econometrics; formulae of Burrell and of Egghe; probabilistic proofs; geometric distributions; Lotka distribution;…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Bibliometrics, Information Science, Library Acquisition
JASIS and Library and Information Science Journal Rankings: A Review and Analysis of the Last Half-Century.
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Nisonger, Thomas E. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Analyzes the "Journal of the American Society for Information Science's (JASIS's)" and its immediate predecessor, "American Documentation's," position in library and information science journal rankings published during the last half-century. Concludes that journal rankings represent a frequently overlooked tool of value to…
Descriptors: Information Dissemination, Information Industry, Information Science, Journal Articles
Collection Development in Support of Library and Information Science Education: A Study of Response to Changing Curricula.
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Via, Barbara J. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1992
A survey of library science librarians was conducted to assess their collection development strategies in response to the changing direction of library science education. Survey results indicate that traditional library science subject areas continue to be actively collected at a high level with the greatest growth in technological areas. (11…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Science, Information Technology
Semantic Relationships between Cited and Citing Articles in Library and Information Science Journals.
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Harter, Stephen P.; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1993
Describes a study that investigated semantic relationships between citing and cited documents for a sample of document pairs in three journals in library and information science. Highlights include comparisons of Library of Congress classification numbers and subject descriptors; implications for collection development and relevance; and…
Descriptors: Citation Analysis, Citations (References), Comparative Analysis, Information Retrieval